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...Friday's full Congress session, Yeltsin urged the Deputies not to press ahead with the vote to remove him, warning that it could "plunge the people into the abyss of confrontation." Whether Khasbulatov was responding to that or had just counted heads and found he could not muster the two-thirds vote necessary, he too stepped back. Conceding that he may have overreacted to Yeltsin's "special rule" speech, he withdrew his demand for impeachment. "Frankly," he said, "I am not a supporter of impeachment...
...time the third session of the Congress in three months gathered in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Friday, the impeachment drive seemed to be losing its momentum. Although the Kremlin rang with bitter invective, the hard-liners did not have the votes to depose Yeltsin. Zorkin, the Chief Justice who had set the impeachment bandwagon in motion, instead offered a 10-point plan for national reconciliation similar to Yeltsin's own program, including a referendum on a new constitution and a law abolishing the Congress in favor of a bicameral parliament...
...Saturday session, Khasbulatov, true to his earlier recantation, tried to head off the vote on the motion to consider sacking Yeltsin. "Impeachment, impeachment! What is this word impeachment?" he said, mocking the use of the foreign term. He was clearly relieved when the motion did not attract enough support to be placed on the agenda...
...weary, rambling speech Saturday afternoon, Yeltsin suggested that in a week of compromise talks with Khasbulatov, Zorkin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, he could produce an agreement that might end the power struggle. The President's face looked puffy, and he paused often, setting off mutters among his foes that he was drunk. Maria Sorokina, a Deputy from Lipetsk, her voice almost breaking, went to the podium to say she had been a Yeltsin loyalist and had worked for his election in 1991. No longer, she said. With heavy sighs, referring to the President's speech, she asked, "How long...
Awaiting the ballot, Yeltsin told a mass rally in Red Square how good it was to see 70,000 supporters. "We are half a million!" someone corrected him from the crowd...